Daily Reflection

Today's Reflection: March 7

Listening

The secret of creating peace is that when you listen to other people you have only one purpose:  to offer them an opportunity to open their hearts.  If you can keep that awareness and compassion alive in you, then you can sit and listen for an hour even if the other person expresses wrong perceptions, condemnation, and bitterness.  You can continue to listen because you are protected by the nectar of compassion in your own heart.  Keeping your awareness keeps you safe in your own peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Look Beneath the Surface
March 6
Love depends upon the capacity to reach beneath the surface of person, to feel and touch the seed of life that is hidden there.  And love becomes a power when…
Clear Your Inner Mirror
March 5
Your task is not to SEEK for LOVE, but merely to seek and find all the BARRIERS within yourself that you have built AGAINST it. As you live DEEPER in…
Peaceful Non-Violence
March 4
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast…
Life is Passing
March 3
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs…
Freedom
March 2
Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice. Thich Nhat Hanh
Community
March 1
To belong to a community is to begin to be about more than myself...No work is enough to satisfy the human soul.  Only the satisfaction of having touched another life…
Be Available
February 28
When we have made ourselves fully available to our neighbor and to God, becoming emptied in the process, then at last we begin to live. Martin Israel from Happiness that Lasts
Live Free
February 27
All good things are wild, and free. Henry David Thoreau
To Flow Like a River
February 26
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. John O'Donohue
All is Holy
February 25
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. Terry…
Two Ways to Live
February 24
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
Live Now
February 23
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. Will Rogers
Particle of the Divine
February 22
May you come to know that in every human event there is a particle of the Divine. Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
Heart Refreshment
February 21
In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
A Pilgrim
February 20
I don't know who I am.  And I don't think people ever will know who they are.  We have to be humble enough to learn to live with this mysterious…

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